Literature: history & criticism books

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African...  Read More >>

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical...  Read More >>

This book documents the findings of a one-year research project engaging the children’s publishing sector for feedback...  Read More >>

Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama’s work as a writer...  Read More >>

Why does China act the way it does? Not through Western analysis. Through Chinese eyes. YIN AND YANG: THE TWO...  Read More >>

""A sympathetic and illuminating account of The Stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of legendary...  Read More >>

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Shir Alon develops a new theory of the emergence of modernist literary forms through a series of parallel readings...  Read More >>

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Nariman Skakov offers a new way to understand Soviet modernism, showing how writers and artists looked to the East...  Read More >>

This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations...  Read More >>

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A collection of essays engaging with digital scholarship and new technologies. Contributors to this volume engage...  Read More >>

A collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The...  Read More >>

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? How can we venture beyond conventional translation, exploring its experimental...  Read More >>

In this newest entry in Andrew Klavan’s USA Today bestselling Cameron Winter series, the ex-spy turned English professor...  Read More >>

The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms...  Read More >>

What does the Book of Revelation tell us-and how does art play a part in it? In Craig Speakman's debut, page through...  Read More >>

Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities provides a critical resource for understanding and debating the multi-,...  Read More >>

How the legacy of the Civil War-as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time-has shaped American visions...  Read More >>

It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their...  Read More >>

The book explores Williams’s cross-cultural landscape poetics by situating his oscillations between the landscape...  Read More >>

Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading...  Read More >>